Simas

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[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

"thinking" mode in LLMs are just a way to charge you more token costs. #llms #thinkingIsWasteful #changemymind

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@jparkjmc So a bs term to basically get users data 😃

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@cellinlab So will happen like with pokemon go. Pretend youre playing, then collect all the data for free from users and sell it to the highest bidder?

What purpose it serves other than draining phone battery?

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@CostelloEd97960 @theaiportfolios Link is broken

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@phosphenq @grok is this an ad or legit valuable read?

[Wes Roth @WesRoth]

I can't believe how good AI video is getting...

we're so cooked, I could not stop watching this

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@EvaVlaar Where are the cheapest, cleanest energy - aka nuclear, now?

[Dominique @dyah10]

Turn Claude into the best creative agent in the world!

Our users generate over 1 billion images and videos every year.

Now Claude can too.

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[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@dyah10 Pixa

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@0xleegenz Yup. 12 years abroad, now enjoying calmer life back hine

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@sundeep Wait, this is not AI this is for real? 😃

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@RoundtableSpace Source ? Or app name?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone’s missing the real story here.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not.

7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.”

Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them.

Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired.

This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates.

Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits.

And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose.

The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@Brucerhodess @moizali https://t.co/vMisMfJcW8

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@DanielMiessler @omarsar0 @karpathy This is interesting and looking to apply this. What would you say were biggest bottlenecks or challenges when using this method? I would guess, defining the criteria and end state. Would you agree? Thanks

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@stats_feed Basically: environment. Environment and early exposure.
Also, money

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@RadenkovDimitar @kimmonismus Have been trying half week, defo nothing impressive. Actually moved back to sonnet-4.5, as it had less hallucinations and Opus seems to be missing large picture for the smaller one

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@elonmusk It seems like invetable, but damn no.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Just a month later and...

🇪🇺 ChatControl is back!

Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes

The new proposal:
- total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU
- obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account
- minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!)

The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it

Read more here by @echo_pbreyer:

https://t.co/Yg2iXX9uWs

[Simas @Simas_Janusas]

@ScholarshipfPhd Hi